Boring used to be a stop for the Western Maryland Railroad as late as the 1940's, and the general store provided a market for the surrounding farms which dot the rolling countryside. Up the road about a mile north in Fowblesburg there was a creamery, also along the railroad, and what used to be the only office of Farmers and Merchants Bank.The bank moved out to the main road in the 1970's, and now has 4 branches scattered between Reisterstown and Manchester.

The general store housed the Post Office and sold household goods and things like sodas and candy as late as the early 1990's, but the store closed in 1994 when the elderly owner passed away. It was a favorite stop for bicyclists, who still take advantage of the quiet uncrowded roads running past the rolling farmland and villages in the surrounding area. Today only the Post Office remains, and a hearing to close the post office was attended by nearly the entire town to oppose the closure, and the Post Office was kept open.